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Live streaming three days a week? That's crazy! Can they really keep that up for long? Talk about going from 0 to 100 in no time. Really hope they don't overreach because I love what they've done so far.

Creating an hour of AoS, an hour of 40k and half an hour of interviews with the design crew every week shouldn't be that hard.

 shinros wrote:

 Mymearan wrote:
Oh man now I REALLY REALLY want to read that book. Also Ironweld Arsenal and duardin seems right in line with the teaser we had from WH Community.

I still think it might be steamhead but I do think the ironweld are responsible for building sigmar's cities and such and of course such people will be important in developing a setting to understand how things work.

That reminds me of the Facebook guys mentioning the chaos holds were built by the chaos dwarfs.

Someone needs to put the idea in the White Dwarf writers heads of a war of the builders where chaos dwarfs and the new Steamheads go at it in battle reports while showcasing their new buildings. (CDs talk about new chaos terrain while Steamheads talk about new Order stuff.)

Chikout wrote:
Josh Reynolds has done my favourite Aos stuff so far. I am glad he is becoming the go to guy for Aos. If he can fit half the stuff he mentioned into the new book it will be great.
It is the sky battles bit that has me thinking of the steamhead.
In the story so far the stormcast have been looking for Duardin all over the realm of metal but have not found them. There have also been a few tidbits about lights in the sky above the realm of metal. The earlier rumour about duardin with backpacks and blimps ties in with this. So we will see a largely aerial steamhead army presumably incorporating the old gyrocopters.
This sounds pretty good to me and follows on with their new tendency to mess with conventional sterotypes.

I think there is a good chance we will see something from clan skyre too.

Oh, the air battles hint never even occurred to me of the new Duardin in action. Good catch!

I hope one of their models look like the Age of Reckoning dwarfs with gyrocopter packs on. They threw the lore out the window but good lord if it wasn't epic to see a "squadron" fly in and set-up a wall of turrets to cut down the Destruction players rushing our line.

Edit: I'm sooo hyped for the new AoS book!

Daedalus81 wrote:

Davor wrote:
What stream?

https://www.twitch.tv/warhammer/v/103486999

Thank you very much.

Baron Klatz wrote:

 shinros wrote:

 Mymearan wrote:
Oh man now I REALLY REALLY want to read that book. Also Ironweld Arsenal and duardin seems right in line with the teaser we had from WH Community.

I still think it might be steamhead but I do think the ironweld are responsible for building sigmar's cities and such and of course such people will be important in developing a setting to understand how things work.

That reminds me of the Facebook guys mentioning the chaos holds were built by the chaos dwarfs.

Someone needs to put the idea in the White Dwarf writers heads of a war of the builders where chaos dwarfs and the new Steamheads go at it in battle reports while showcasing their new buildings. (CDs talk about new chaos terrain while Steamheads talk about new Order stuff.)

Chikout wrote:
Josh Reynolds has done my favourite Aos stuff so far. I am glad he is becoming the go to guy for Aos. If he can fit half the stuff he mentioned into the new book it will be great.
It is the sky battles bit that has me thinking of the steamhead.
In the story so far the stormcast have been looking for Duardin all over the realm of metal but have not found them. There have also been a few tidbits about lights in the sky above the realm of metal. The earlier rumour about duardin with backpacks and blimps ties in with this. So we will see a largely aerial steamhead army presumably incorporating the old gyrocopters.
This sounds pretty good to me and follows on with their new tendency to mess with conventional sterotypes.

I think there is a good chance we will see something from clan skyre too.

Oh, the air battles hint never even occurred to me of the new Duardin in action. Good catch!

I hope one of their models look like the Age of Reckoning dwarfs with gyrocopter packs on. They threw the lore out the window but good lord if it wasn't epic to see a "squadron" fly in and set-up a wall of turrets to cut down the Destruction players rushing our line.

Edit: I'm sooo hyped for the new AoS book!

Chaos dwarfs are mentioned in the AOS campaign book that they actually built some of Archaon's fortresses so yeah they are canon.


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Oh and this.

https://trackofwords.wordpress.com/2016/11/25/black-library-live-coming-soon-age-of-sigmar/#_=_

Hallowed Knights: Plague Garden by Josh Reynolds
This will feature the Hallowed Knights Stormcast chamber heading to the realm of Nurgle, kicking ass and taking names. It was pitched as being the beginning of a new wave of Age of Sigmar books.

Josh: “Hallowed Knights: Plague Garden takes place after the Season of War campaign and the All-Gates game book. It follows Gardus and the Steel Souls warrior chamber as they invade the realm of Nurgle in order to rescue Lord-Castellant Grymn from the Plague God and his followers. Tornus the Redeemed (formerly Torglug the Despised) is a major character, as is Gutrot Spume. And while it follows the Steel Souls, it’s very much a Hallowed Knights book – it’ll explore some of the Stormhost’s culture, their way of honouring the dead, of keeping their memories of mortal life intact, etc. It’s also a book about redemption and faith, and how those things aren’t necessarily seen in the same way by all of the Hallowed Knights. The Stormhost is made up of the Faithful – but that can mean a lot of different things. Also – female Stormcasts. Far as I know, this’ll be the first book to mention them.” [u]

Oh yes and this as well if people want to know what stormcast do off duty I suggest if you have lore questions check out josh's ask fm and of course someone seems excited for female stormcast finally appearing on askfm.

How complicated is the concept of Gender and identity when you have been reforged by a god into an eternal warrior angel of storms?

Surprisingly uncomplicated. But you'll have to wait to find out just how uncomplicated.

How many female stormcast eternals are in your new book?

Wait and find out.

What do you think stormcast eternals do when they're off duty?

Actually, that's talked about a bit in Hallowed Knights: Plague Garden. Different stormcasts do different things, from quiet contemplation to games of chance and skill. It depends on what they did in life, and the traditions of their stormhost. The Hallowed Knights, for instance, spend a lot of time trying to record the memories of their mortal life, so that who they were and where they came from won't be forgotten after their inevitable reforging. Some stormhosts probably build (or rebuild) the places they liberate. The Astral Templars hunt monsters for fun, or go bother their descendants.

And some stormcast - those who've been reforged too many times - don't do anything. They just wait for the next battle.

Are there VODs of the stream? I wasn't able to watch live.


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I hope we get another book on the Anvils of the Heldenhammer. They were the protagonists in Lord of Undeath and I quite liked their characters.

Oh, the air battles hint never even occurred to me of the new Duardin in action. Good catch!

I hope one of their models look like the Age of Reckoning dwarfs with gyrocopter packs on. They threw the lore out the window but good lord if it wasn't epic to see a "squadron" fly in and set-up a wall of turrets to cut down the Destruction players rushing our line.

Bah! I want to see the Grot Sky Pirates in action! (Mentioned in Destruction Lore) They'll be buzzin' down Durardin squadrons in no time

 shinros wrote:

Baron Klatz wrote:

 shinros wrote:

 Mymearan wrote:
Oh man now I REALLY REALLY want to read that book. Also Ironweld Arsenal and duardin seems right in line with the teaser we had from WH Community.

I still think it might be steamhead but I do think the ironweld are responsible for building sigmar's cities and such and of course such people will be important in developing a setting to understand how things work.

That reminds me of the Facebook guys mentioning the chaos holds were built by the chaos dwarfs.

Someone needs to put the idea in the White Dwarf writers heads of a war of the builders where chaos dwarfs and the new Steamheads go at it in battle reports while showcasing their new buildings. (CDs talk about new chaos terrain while Steamheads talk about new Order stuff.)

Chikout wrote:
Josh Reynolds has done my favourite Aos stuff so far. I am glad he is becoming the go to guy for Aos. If he can fit half the stuff he mentioned into the new book it will be great.
It is the sky battles bit that has me thinking of the steamhead.
In the story so far the stormcast have been looking for Duardin all over the realm of metal but have not found them. There have also been a few tidbits about lights in the sky above the realm of metal. The earlier rumour about duardin with backpacks and blimps ties in with this. So we will see a largely aerial steamhead army presumably incorporating the old gyrocopters.
This sounds pretty good to me and follows on with their new tendency to mess with conventional sterotypes.

I think there is a good chance we will see something from clan skyre too.

Oh, the air battles hint never even occurred to me of the new Duardin in action. Good catch!

I hope one of their models look like the Age of Reckoning dwarfs with gyrocopter packs on. They threw the lore out the window but good lord if it wasn't epic to see a "squadron" fly in and set-up a wall of turrets to cut down the Destruction players rushing our line.

Edit: I'm sooo hyped for the new AoS book!

Chaos dwarfs are mentioned in the AOS campaign book that they actually built some of Archaon's fortresses so yeah they are canon.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Oh and this.

https://trackofwords.wordpress.com/2016/11/25/black-library-live-coming-soon-age-of-sigmar/#_=_

Hallowed Knights: Plague Garden by Josh Reynolds
This will feature the Hallowed Knights Stormcast chamber heading to the realm of Nurgle, kicking ass and taking names. It was pitched as being the beginning of a new wave of Age of Sigmar books.

Josh: “Hallowed Knights: Plague Garden takes place after the Season of War campaign and the All-Gates game book. It follows Gardus and the Steel Souls warrior chamber as they invade the realm of Nurgle in order to rescue Lord-Castellant Grymn from the Plague God and his followers. Tornus the Redeemed (formerly Torglug the Despised) is a major character, as is Gutrot Spume. And while it follows the Steel Souls, it’s very much a Hallowed Knights book – it’ll explore some of the Stormhost’s culture, their way of honouring the dead, of keeping their memories of mortal life intact, etc. It’s also a book about redemption and faith, and how those things aren’t necessarily seen in the same way by all of the Hallowed Knights. The Stormhost is made up of the Faithful – but that can mean a lot of different things. Also – female Stormcasts. Far as I know, this’ll be the first book to mention them.” [u]

Oh yes and this as well if people want to know what stormcast do off duty I suggest if you have lore questions check out josh's ask fm and of course someone seems excited for female stormcast finally appearing on askfm.

How complicated is the concept of Gender and identity when you have been reforged by a god into an eternal warrior angel of storms?

Surprisingly uncomplicated. But you'll have to wait to find out just how uncomplicated.

How many female stormcast eternals are in your new book?

Wait and find out.

What do you think stormcast eternals do when they're off duty?

Actually, that's talked about a bit in Hallowed Knights: Plague Garden. Different stormcasts do different things, from quiet contemplation to games of chance and skill. It depends on what they did in life, and the traditions of their stormhost. The Hallowed Knights, for instance, spend a lot of time trying to record the memories of their mortal life, so that who they were and where they came from won't be forgotten after their inevitable reforging. Some stormhosts probably build (or rebuild) the places they liberate. The Astral Templars hunt monsters for fun, or go bother their descendants.

And some stormcast - those who've been reforged too many times - don't do anything. They just wait for the next battle.

*Slams money and Warhammer down on table*

Only the Faithful! Give it to me now!

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2016/11/29/top-5-lists-from-blood-glory/

For those of you who tuned in to our Twitch channel at the weekend (all of you …right?) you’ll know that Blood & Glory was an action-packed Warhammer Age of Sigmar tournament held in Derby, UK. Dice were rolled, beer was drunk, legends were made. It was a great weekend with some stunning armies and phenomenal generalship.

Below, you’ll find the top 5 army lists, and we’ll bring you more on these lists direct from the players themselves later this week and next week, starting with winner, Ben Johnson.

New teaser from the Rumour Engine at WHC site.

Let the speculation commence!

its an arm holding a set of keys.
there ya go, mystery solved

reds8n wrote:https://www.warhammer-community.com/2016/11/29/top-5-lists-from-blood-glory/

For those of you who tuned in to our Twitch channel at the weekend (all of you …right?) you’ll know that Blood & Glory was an action-packed Warhammer Age of Sigmar tournament held in Derby, UK. Dice were rolled, beer was drunk, legends were made. It was a great weekend with some stunning armies and phenomenal generalship.

Below, you’ll find the top 5 army lists, and we’ll bring you more on these lists direct from the players themselves later this week and next week, starting with winner, Ben Johnson.

I love this. Not just because GW is getting involved in independent tournaments (though that's awesome), but just look in that variety of lists. A tactical delayed strike list with no monsters/big heroes, a pretty standard list with a single deathstar gimmick (that can be shut down), two monster mash lists (and the Sylvaneth one is a pretty atypical Sylv list), and an army of blobs with relatively minor monster support behind.

That's awesome. At a competitive level, we're seeing lists that look pretty fluffy and aren't all just variations on one another. That's just beautiful to see imo.

angelofvengeance wrote:New teaser from the Rumour Engine at WHC site.

Let the speculation commence!

Spoiler:

That has to be Tzeentch, right? It's possibly malformed enough to be some sort of undead, though. Death or Tzeetch are the only things I could see from this and the previous.

Requizen wrote:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2016/11/29/top-5-lists-from-blood-glory/
That has to be Tzeentch, right? It's possibly malformed enough to be some sort of undead, though. Death or Tzeetch are the only things I could see from this and the previous.

That of genestealers are getting extra creepy ;P

Definitely Tzeentch. This and the eye-staff teaser with the blue hand make me think Arcanites in December and Steamhead in January.

Cataphract wrote:
Definitely Tzeentch. This and the eye-staff teaser with the blue hand make me think Arcanites in December and Steamhead in January.

I think it's basically a given if you look at 40k. The Tzaangor sprues have options that are clearly for AoS, and Pink Horrors now split into Blue/Brimstone Horrors, which to me says that they're getting standalone kits. So probably a Tzeentch Arcanites + Daemon release. Heck, even looking at Magnus's first two sprues I could see at least one of them being shared with a Lord of Change kit.

Requizen wrote:

Cataphract wrote:
Definitely Tzeentch. This and the eye-staff teaser with the blue hand make me think Arcanites in December and Steamhead in January.

I think it's basically a given if you look at 40k. The Tzaangor sprues have options that are clearly for AoS, and Pink Horrors now split into Blue/Brimstone Horrors, which to me says that they're getting standalone kits. So probably a Tzeentch Arcanites + Daemon release. Heck, even looking at Magnus's first two sprues I could see at least one of them being shared with a Lord of Change kit.

I imagine there is going to be a Tzeentch AoS release that will cover the Arcanites, New Horrors and LoC/Fatey. Maybe something more.

From Facebook:

A few of you eagle-eyed fans out there rightly noted that the new Thousand Sons Tzaangor unit comes with options for a sword, shields, axes and even banners and chaos brayhorns.
We asked the adepts in the Silver Tower (Design Studio) about this, and they cryptically informed us that Tzeentch has plans for this unit in the Mortal Realms.
Make of that what you will...

 Ghaz wrote:
From Facebook:

A few of you eagle-eyed fans out there rightly noted that the new Thousand Sons Tzaangor unit comes with options for a sword, shields, axes and even banners and chaos brayhorns.
We asked the adepts in the Silver Tower (Design Studio) about this, and they cryptically informed us that Tzeentch has plans for this unit in the Mortal Realms.
Make of that what you will...

It is nice to have confirmation of what we all already knew. For a while it has been a matter of when Arcanites are coming. With more 40k in the new year we may have to wait till Feb. Really looking forward to the new loc too.

I really want some battleline arcanites.

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Reds8n

The AoS Tzaangors are indeed very nice. Here are some miniatures built this week-end with swords and shields, + two-handed sword, banner and horn blower. There are a few conversions (the two handed sword is actually reversed and the horn blower normally has no weapon in his right hand).



Details are great. You can feel these beastmen are filthy rich!

Requizen wrote:

reds8n wrote:https://www.warhammer-community.com/2016/11/29/top-5-lists-from-blood-glory/

For those of you who tuned in to our Twitch channel at the weekend (all of you …right?) you’ll know that Blood & Glory was an action-packed Warhammer Age of Sigmar tournament held in Derby, UK. Dice were rolled, beer was drunk, legends were made. It was a great weekend with some stunning armies and phenomenal generalship.

Below, you’ll find the top 5 army lists, and we’ll bring you more on these lists direct from the players themselves later this week and next week, starting with winner, Ben Johnson.

I love this. Not just because GW is getting involved in independent tournaments (though that's awesome), but just look in that variety of lists. A tactical delayed strike list with no monsters/big heroes, a pretty standard list with a single deathstar gimmick (that can be shut down), two monster mash lists (and the Sylvaneth one is a pretty atypical Sylv list), and an army of blobs with relatively minor monster support behind.

That's awesome. At a competitive level, we're seeing lists that look pretty fluffy and aren't all just variations on one another. That's just beautiful to see imo.

I'm not sure I get how seeing these lists is a good thing, aside from #2 which is something new everything else is just confirming stuff we know was OP is OP. Earlier today a friend told me Stormcast won, and my response was "Skyborne Slayers or Warrior Brotherhood?" without knowing anything else. Lists 3, 4, and 5 are all monster mash, with 3 and 5 both being the same concept (beastclaw heroes with grot troops). Even list #2 makes use of models that are well known to extremely undercosted. All I see in this is further confirmation that only armies composed of OP choices are competitive in a tournament setting.

List #5 has 2 monsters and over 150 Grots (including the battalion for them). If you're going to just sit there and say that's a "monster mash" list I'll laugh in your face.

You need to get off this train of thinking that Battalions are bad. Stormcast don't even work without the ability to Deep Strike. Of course they use Warrior Brotherhood or Skyborne Slayers, that's like saying "I knew that Free People's army had guns before I even looked at it". Foot Stormcast doesn't work, at least not against anyone who knows what they're doing.

And the list is actually interesting because few people if any run just the battalion by itself. Prosecutors with Hammers (let alone a double-sized unit) have been almost universally considered bad but he took first with them. Double Azyros would probably get you a lot of funny looks since people expect just one with a punchy hero.

Whining for the sake of whining or bashing GW or whatever is just getting old.

Requizen wrote:
List #5 has 2 monsters and over 150 Grots (including the battalion for them). If you're going to just sit there and say that's a "monster mash" list I'll laugh in your face.

You need to get off this train of thinking that Battalions are bad. Stormcast don't even work without the ability to Deep Strike. Of course they use Warrior Brotherhood or Skyborne Slayers, that's like saying "I knew that Free People's army had guns before I even looked at it". Foot Stormcast doesn't work, at least not against anyone who knows what they're doing.

And the list is actually interesting because few people if any run just the battalion by itself. Prosecutors with Hammers (let alone a double-sized unit) have been almost universally considered bad but he took first with them. Double Azyros would probably get you a lot of funny looks since people expect just one with a punchy hero.

Whining for the sake of whining or bashing GW or whatever is just getting old.

You're right on list #5; isn't really monster mash, so I retract that claim.

That Stormcast don't work without lightning strike is the problem I am referencing. Stormcast using it and not using it should be equally balanced; the former has lightning strike but less points spent on models than the latter and those two factors even out.

You must not know me, because I have been a supporter of AoS' viability since before the GHB was even announced. I play AoS every week and have over 100 games under my belt. I have stated numerous times that GW has turned a corner and is doing a great job this year. I am not bashing them for the sake of bashing, I am raising a concern that ~2/3 of the units available in the game aren't viable in a competitive setting. I said this when the GHB was released and was told that we'd have to wait and see what winning tournament lists looked like. I felt like this response was justified since there was only theoretical evidence. But now that tourney lists and countless anecdotes are confirming the problems previously stated responding that I am "whining for the sake of whining" seems rather unproductive to the conversation, not to mention abundantly demonstrated as false.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:

Requizen wrote:

reds8n wrote:https://www.warhammer-community.com/2016/11/29/top-5-lists-from-blood-glory/

For those of you who tuned in to our Twitch channel at the weekend (all of you …right?) you’ll know that Blood & Glory was an action-packed Warhammer Age of Sigmar tournament held in Derby, UK. Dice were rolled, beer was drunk, legends were made. It was a great weekend with some stunning armies and phenomenal generalship.

Below, you’ll find the top 5 army lists, and we’ll bring you more on these lists direct from the players themselves later this week and next week, starting with winner, Ben Johnson.

I love this. Not just because GW is getting involved in independent tournaments (though that's awesome), but just look in that variety of lists. A tactical delayed strike list with no monsters/big heroes, a pretty standard list with a single deathstar gimmick (that can be shut down), two monster mash lists (and the Sylvaneth one is a pretty atypical Sylv list), and an army of blobs with relatively minor monster support behind.

That's awesome. At a competitive level, we're seeing lists that look pretty fluffy and aren't all just variations on one another. That's just beautiful to see imo.

I'm not sure I get how seeing these lists is a good thing, aside from #2 which is something new everything else is just confirming stuff we know was OP is OP. Earlier today a friend told me Stormcast won, and my response was "Skyborne Slayers or Warrior Brotherhood?" without knowing anything else. Lists 3, 4, and 5 are all monster mash, with 3 and 5 both being the same concept (beastclaw heroes with grot troops). Even list #2 makes use of models that are well known to extremely undercosted. All I see in this is further confirmation that only armies composed of OP choices are competitive in a tournament setting.

The hope is that the next generals handbook will address these issues. It is envitable that a new selection of armies will end Up being op this time next year, but they have a great opportunity to rebalance the game.

Chikout wrote:
The hope is that the next generals handbook will address these issues. It is envitable that a new selection of armies will end Up being op this time next year, but they have a great opportunity to rebalanced the game.

Given new GW's track record I have high hopes for this. Even if new armies turn out to be unbalanced that's completely forgivable if all the options we have now get put on a similar playing field.

Lady Atia just posted that the Island of Blood set is getting repackaged for AoS.

https://war-of-sigmar.herokuapp.com/bloggings/1460

That's very interesting.

Is it just release filler and a temporary sell to clear stock or is something else going on?

I hope they tie it's rebooted background into the Aelven city that was built(and successfully defended) in the realm of life.

Great to see that coming back, I remember a lot of us saying when AoS launched that the contents of IoB made much more appropriate starting forces for AoS than they did for WFB! Some of the nicest plastics GW has ever made too.

Yay, finally! Would love more of those rogres, weapon teams and warlocks!